Musing at the feet of the Beloved

The following entries are from my journals over the past five years. They come from a place of the heart and my own personal experience sitting at the feet of the beloved Master, Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj. I pray that they will give you some insight into the world of a mere seeker in the presence of the beloved.

As I sit for meditation I am given moments of clarity where time ceases and the essence of existence which is love, washes over me in the unity of being. Zen koans solve themselves even though I do not employ them. Where the mind stops so does time and so does the flag waving on the flag pole. Love encompasses all.

9/30/2011

Last night was the annual blessing of the pens for all the children getting ready to write there exams next week. Maharaj Ji made his way through the thousand kids and gave each of them a loving pat and blessed all of their pens. The love and devotion of Maharaj Ji for all of these young souls filled every heart with great joy as his love washed over the thousands in attendance.

2/18/2012

Each visit to India and the ashram unfolds new experiences and reveals new mysteries.

Time does not move at a normal pace here. Days do not exist only each instant has any reality. The Master's love radiates out to all causing our own hearts to expand to infinite capacity. One can no longer say that there is a difference between beings. Unity is the only reality.

When unity is all that is perceived there is no more ego. There is only an abiding ocean of love that encompasses all of creation. There is no more I, no more other, there only is the one, the infinite love that is the essence of the divine permeating all that is. It is all that has ever been and all that ever will be.

It is our own minds that weave tails of separation and woe. When we sit still and abide in this ocean of love all else falls away. Only bliss remains.

2/18/2012

Each new day brings a fresh opportunity for us to experience the creator's love manifest in the faces all around us. It is manifest in the grand diversity of all who exist. The pain we see in others is a chance for us to exercise a compassionate heart. The love we see radiated by others is an opportunity for us to reflect the divine love shining through their eyes. We are but a mirror of the Master's grace that fills our very being. We must bask in this moment, in every moment expanding each divine instant to encompass all of creation with love.

2/19/2012

Those eyes, immense pools of light

Sweeping across the teeming masses to ignite

Souls to blazing flames of love.

Burning off the dross that encrusts the sleeping spirit

Allowing it to shine forth with light greater than the sun

With light so cool and soothing

The light of which we are all made

So many words cannot explain but only confuse.

2/21/2012

We are all but beggars at the feet of the Lord

Grant us a drop of your sweet ambrosia

Oh, beloved we thirst to drink deep of your

Fathomless eyes

Please quench this divine thirst

Grant us the bliss of your infinite love.

2/22/2012

Those divine diamond eyes

Cut through all of our sorrows

Who can fathom the depth

of those infinite pools of grace

Oh, Master let us ever be showered

With the godly love flowing

From those divine diamond eyes.

2/24/2012

How can the uninitiated know

That we are not just sitting?

That cannot see that

We are dancing with the Lord.

Our hearts have sprouted wings

And flown beyond.

Our spirits perform

A celestial ballet

With moves unknown

To the imagination of all

But the initiated.

A ballet accompanied by

A sweet symphony of love.

2/26/2012

Let those divine eyes

Burn away our impurities

So that we may become like

A polished mirror

Reflecting all of your godly qualities.

Smooth away all of our blemishes

To reveal our souls pristine nature

And allow it to radiate love to all creation

2/28/2012

It is not only the Master that makes this place a paradise.

It is the Master's love reflected in the assembly at his feet.

My heart is filled beyond all capacity as it mirrors

the light shining from the eyes of all my brothers and sisters.

Sweet pearls fall from my eyes as the Master's love pours out from them.

How can such sweetness be expressed with the pain I feel knowing I must depart.

Please let me carry this light to all I meet.

May my own eyes shine forth with his divine light.

May I disappear and only he remain.

3/1/2012

There is magic in this place.

The Master is the divine alchemist

Converting rough worthless stones into gems.

He reforms our very nature

So that we become many faceted jewels

That can reflect and radiate his divine love.

He chisels us with his darshan

And washes us with his love

Until all that remains is a sparkling light

Shining forth with the glory of his love.

3/1/2012

The world goes on outside of the Ashram, yet here there is only peace. It is time to spend with our extended family from all over the world. Much laughter, many tears of love and joy. Only now exists.

9/29/2012

Here we float on this ocean of love.

Carried gently on the waves.

We must dive to the depths to

Know the true bliss that comes with

the merging in the beloved.

Surrender to the all-embracing love of the divine.

Dive deep!

10/2/2012

Sitting here since the

beginning of time

waiting for the beloved.

When the beloved comes

all pain, all sorrow,

all negativity vanishes.

His gentle touch evaporates all time.

His glance washes over us like a cooling stream.

His love fills us and we expand to know all

creation is just sitting here since the

beginning of time

waiting for the beloved.

10/4/2012

This love is not your commercial love.

This love knows no desire but to give

and pour forth boundlessly.

This love is all expansion all embracing.

This love does not discriminate,

It shines forth with a brilliant cooling light.

It washes away all pain, all fear, all sorrow.

It enlivens our heart for it is the very essence of our soul.

Rest in its infinite bliss.

10/7/2012

Our true birthday is when we come to the feet of the Beloved Master.

It is the day we know we are soul, drops of the ocean of infinite love.

It is this love that pours through me to all I meet.

It is not associated with this outer form.

It is only that we are drenched in the Master's love and grace.

Let all be infected with love that is so contagious.

10/10/2012

I have always dwelt here in the abode of bliss.

Here where there is only the still point of light

emanating from the heart of the beloved,

This single point of love that encompasses all creation.

Though I must travel on

I will not leave this place

And it will depart from me.

For I have dissolved like sugar in the ocean of love's ambrosia,

Where I have always dwelt in this abode of bliss.

10/11/2012

Zen awakening -

Child's smile, mother's hand,

no worries, just infinite love.

4/16/2013

My heart over flows with the love drenching this place.

9/29/2013

This is a family knit together, from all corners of the world, by the silken bonds of universal love emanating from the Master.

9/30/2013

There is no way to describe the unity of love. It can only be experienced as we dive deeply into the divine ocean and loose our little self that keeps us bound to the illusion of separateness.

10/1/2013

What is this place where time does not exist,

where love is the only medium?

Where all is just the unity of love.

We breathe in love and exhale love.

There is only this.

10/4/2013

Love knows no distance or time.

Love flows out from the source of existence.

Love knows no grasping it only knows open arms.

Embrace all with a heart overflowing.

3/10/2014

Who is this one that is brother, father and beloved?

He is the very source of love.

In His presence there is no worry.

In His presence there is only joy.

He shows us our true home.

He greets us with glances of love.

He embraces us as His own.

3/10/2014

The wonders of this path expand continuously.

Our vision is so small, we see so little,

When we view only with the eyes.

When we gaze with the heart the vistas are endless.

Greet all with arms of love and the entire universe unfolds.

3/13/2014

We travel through existence on a minute thread that is being woven out of all that is before us and is unraveling into all that is behind us. It is only in this instant that all that is comes together to support us on this very minute thread.

2/21/2015

When you sit, just sink into the source of existence. Let all thoughts of the past and the future fall away. Let all images of oneself dissolve in the ocean of being. Float in the pool that is beyond time and identity. Experience the oneness of all there is.